[nagdu] From what school did you get your dog?

[Lisa]

Bryan,
that was interesting! Thanks for sharing your individual view on the 
training program and the specials that were taught to your guide.

Lisa
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From: "Bryan Gearry via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
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Subject: Re: [nagdu] From what school did you get your dog?


> My Guide came from the Guide Dog Foundation. He is a large (size) Golden 
> Retreiver. Since I live in Alaska, GDF tailored trained him for dealing 
> with this type of life style. We use boats and airplanes a lot for 
> transportation. When I got him, he had no problems jumping in a small boat 
> and going places. I even took him to Hawaii on a charter with 20' swells. 
> He did better than the other 2 fellas on the charter. Also GDF had made 
> arrangements to get him accustom to fly in small planes. He and I went up 
> over Long Island in a Cessna 172 and the pilot did a lot of steep turns to 
> get him used to unusual attitudes. It has come in very handy as now he has 
> no problem of jumping the back of a Super Cub and landing in the 
> bush....very handy! The other thing that GDF did think of was to introduce 
> him to large animals. They had exposed him to horses and cows. We have a 
> lot of Moose where I live and he has had many encounters and behaves 
> wonderfully. We have even had numerous Brown Bear encounters. He doesn't 
> start barking or going crazy as that would probably be perceived as a 
> threat or we would be a statistic! I'm not a poster child for GDF, but 
> they matched and trained this Guide perfectly. Can't say enough good about 
> them. I'm sure that everybody else has had some great experiences with 
> their schools also.
>
> On 3/20/2015 7:08 AM, Bridget Walker via nagdu wrote:
>> I got my dog from Guiding Eyes in New York. My dog is five now. Training 
>> and travel were free. The instruction was very individualized. I have a 
>> secondary disability they were able to accommodate in the regular class. 
>> I did not need to be placed in the special needs program though they have 
>> one. If I choose to get another dog, I plan to go back to Guiding Eyes. 
>> They have been very supportive from the day I started thinking about 
>> applying to get a guide dog.
>> Bridget and Paulson
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On Mar 20, 27 Heisei, at 10:53 AM, Sheila Leigland via 
>>> nagdu<nagdu at nfbnet.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> my husband and I also got our dogs from Pilot dogs. They are both five 
>>> year old golden retrievers.
>>>
>>>> On 3/20/2015 7:01 AM, Clare Westlund via nagdu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhonegood morning everyone! I thought it would be fun to 
>>>> discover what screw everyone chose to attend in order to receive their 
>>>> dogs? I got my dog from pilot dogs! He is a 23 month old golden 
>>>> retriever, as of tomorrow!I hope to become friends with you!
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